These three American piano trios, composed between 1984 and 1995, show the diversity of musical styles so richly evident in American chamber music of the last two decades of the 20th century. Lalo Schifrin’s Hommage à Ravel is an eclectic mix of impressionism, African and South American rhythms, jazz and middle-eastern scales. Gunther Schuller’s Piano Trio is a wonderful example of the third stream movement in music, where the boundaries between classical music and jazz are removed and a synthesis of the two occurs. Gerald Shapiro’s Piano Trio reflects the post-impressionism contrapuntal writing of his teachers Milhaud and Boulanger, spiced with a bit of post-Webern serialism and jazz.